Realtek 8111 onboard gigabit chip is not supported in Linux

This travesty is dragging on since at least 2006.

The author of the driver is clearly incompetent and simply incapable of writing gigabit support. As a result this most widespread built-in chip performs under Linux as only 1/10th of what it can do under Windows.

How "Linux open-source community" can continue to tolerate this drawback is simply beyond me. They have gigabit and 10 gigabit drivers for other chips, but no one seems to be willing to kick an incompetent impostor of a developer out of the project and re-assign this work to someone more capable. more...

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